INTRODUCTION:
It is commonly understood that our nation's students are in the most competent care of school teachers, whose variety of roles and responsibilities provide the best quality of education, skill-building, and post high school preparation before that diploma is placed in their hands. In addition, teachers must also build a level of understanding, trust, and personal rapport between themselves and their classes. Without this level of trust, the produce of a student's educational experience can be inconsistent, meaningless, and can prove to be an ultimate failure.
Once this level of trust is established and strengthened, the teacher can then introduce various ways/routes to take their students in a direction that breeds success that may have rarely been traveled prior to our currently shifting technological/communications revolution. This very revolution makes a multimedia-enhanced education inevitable.
ISSUES:
While there are many positive and exciting tools and resources for students to experiment, build understanding and collaborative learning environments, as well as peak their interest and confidence levels within the learning atmosphere, this age of information and media also leaves students extremely vulnerable.
Because of their naivete and vulnerability in this wireless world, teachers serves a revised role of modeling, informing, and somewhat protecting their classes from harassment, bullying, predation, and even identity theft. It's important for our students to know that while the Web may serve as a conductor of fun, building relationships, and creativity, it also serves as the basis for harmful collaboration for sex predators, fraud, and a threat America, as well as other nations, knows all too well, which is terrorism. Communication becomes all too easy and efficiently fast for any user that is seeking to conduct harm, destruction, and fear.
Reality:
Take the tragedy of September 11th, 2001 for example. The reality of it, for this sake, is that students need to realize that these situations are out there. It is an unfortunate part of life and it has become all too common as our world continues to develop and progress. Aside of its tragic outcomes, students need to realize that the world is full of evil and if they aren't careful, they can easily become victimized and easy targets for these vindictive perpetrators that could care less how old or how innocent they are. The terrorists that hijacked the planes on September 11th, 2001 had no ounce of empathy for the young, old, husbands and wives, intellectual ability, handicap, tolerant and culturally/religiously competent individuals, etc. It bore no impact on their strategy and plan of attack on that fateful day. Anyone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time met their unfortunate demise.
Resources:
What students need to learn through their teachers and one another is to be aware of the dangers and their level of vulnerability out there. What must be modeled by the teacher is how to create alternatives, safety precautions, and protection from a wireless world that has much to offer and so many to harm. Below you will engage in a series of examples that serve to outline a teacher's role in facilitating appropriate student caution, action, and response to scenarios experienced at the expense of a vulnerable learner.
LINK:
The link below is an excellent resource for teens looking for what is approaporiate digital behavior and what is not. Its also a place they can go to find out how to deal with bad behavior when they are the victim.
Goals:
The goal here is a life lesson. It is threefold. First, it is to demonstrate that there are bad people in the world, or those with malicious intent. Second, it is to show that we can protect ourselves. Finally, it is to demonstrate how bad experiences can be put to good use when we learn from them.
Assignment:
Students will work together in small groups (two to four) and develop some guidelines for future class online projects. When the class has assembled all of their guidelines, they will put them on the board and discuss them. They will work to edit their collected ideas down to ten guidelines. These will then be presented to the school board and if approved, be posted in all the school computer labs.
Sending home permission slip and information sheet to parents to be signed and returned
Rubric and guidelines that woud be beneficial and 'safe' for students to use and follow in assignment/project
CONCLUSION: In the end an online community is just an extension of our classrooms.The same expectations and appropriate behaviors are a must.As always it is a two way street.Teachers need to provide a good foundation with common rules and expected behavior.Students need to follow through with those common behaviors.If these behaviors are not met then there must be consequences for the wrong behaviors.The online community for schools is a great resource for all whoare willing to go things the rightway.
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INTRODUCTION:
It is commonly understood that our nation's students are in the most competent care of school teachers, whose variety of roles and responsibilities provide the best quality of education, skill-building, and post high school preparation before that diploma is placed in their hands. In addition, teachers must also build a level of understanding, trust, and personal rapport between themselves and their classes. Without this level of trust, the produce of a student's educational experience can be inconsistent, meaningless, and can prove to be an ultimate failure.
Once this level of trust is established and strengthened, the teacher can then introduce various ways/routes to take their students in a direction that breeds success that may have rarely been traveled prior to our currently shifting technological/communications revolution. This very revolution makes a multimedia-enhanced education inevitable.
ISSUES:
While there are many positive and exciting tools and resources for students to experiment, build understanding and collaborative learning environments, as well as peak their interest and confidence levels within the learning atmosphere, this age of information and media also leaves students extremely vulnerable.
Because of their naivete and vulnerability in this wireless world, teachers serves a revised role of modeling, informing, and somewhat protecting their classes from harassment, bullying, predation, and even identity theft. It's important for our students to know that while the Web may serve as a conductor of fun, building relationships, and creativity, it also serves as the basis for harmful collaboration for sex predators, fraud, and a threat America, as well as other nations, knows all too well, which is terrorism. Communication becomes all too easy and efficiently fast for any user that is seeking to conduct harm, destruction, and fear.
Reality:
Take the tragedy of September 11th, 2001 for example. The reality of it, for this sake, is that students need to realize that these situations are out there. It is an unfortunate part of life and it has become all too common as our world continues to develop and progress. Aside of its tragic outcomes, students need to realize that the world is full of evil and if they aren't careful, they can easily become victimized and easy targets for these vindictive perpetrators that could care less how old or how innocent they are. The terrorists that hijacked the planes on September 11th, 2001 had no ounce of empathy for the young, old, husbands and wives, intellectual ability, handicap, tolerant and culturally/religiously competent individuals, etc. It bore no impact on their strategy and plan of attack on that fateful day. Anyone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time met their unfortunate demise.
Resources:
What students need to learn through their teachers and one another is to be aware of the dangers and their level of vulnerability out there. What must be modeled by the teacher is how to create alternatives, safety precautions, and protection from a wireless world that has much to offer and so many to harm. Below you will engage in a series of examples that serve to outline a teacher's role in facilitating appropriate student caution, action, and response to scenarios experienced at the expense of a vulnerable learner.
LINK:
The link below is an excellent resource for teens looking for what is approaporiate digital behavior and what is not. Its also a place they can go to find out how to deal with bad behavior when they are the victim.
http://www.thatsnotcool.com/
Teacher approach:
Introducing to class assignment
Project:
Ten Rules for Online Projects
Goals:
The goal here is a life lesson. It is threefold. First, it is to demonstrate that there are bad people in the world, or those with malicious intent. Second, it is to show that we can protect ourselves. Finally, it is to demonstrate how bad experiences can be put to good use when we learn from them.
Assignment:
Students will work together in small groups (two to four) and develop some guidelines for future class online projects. When the class has assembled all of their guidelines, they will put them on the board and discuss them. They will work to edit their collected ideas down to ten guidelines. These will then be presented to the school board and if approved, be posted in all the school computer labs.
CONCLUSION:
In the end an online community is just an extension of our classrooms.The same expectations and appropriate behaviors are a must.As always it is a two way street.Teachers need to provide a good foundation with common rules and expected behavior.Students need to follow through with those common behaviors.If these behaviors are not met then there must be consequences for the wrong behaviors.The online community for schools is a great resource for all whoare willing to go things the rightway.